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African Aura Mining Inc wurde aus der Fusion des "Mano River Resources" (dessen Aktionäre entstanden mit 75% der Summe) und des Africa Aura Resources (25%) gegründet. Das fusionierte Unternehmen, dass an den TSX - V und London's AIM notiert ist, hat einer beeindruckende afrikanische Exploration - und - entwicklungsstammbaum. African Aura konzentriert sich auf die Entwicklung der Weltklassen Gold-und-Eisenlagerstätten in subsaharischem Afrika. Die Liegenschaften des Unternehmens umfassen die "New Liberty" Goldlagerstätte und das Putu Eisenerzprojekt, beide in Liberia, und die "Nkout" Goldlagerstätte und die "Batouri" Goldprojekt in Kamerun. Das Unternehmen hat auch eine 59% ige Beteiligung an Diamantenproduzent Stellar Diamonds Ltd, dass kürzlich mit West African Diamonds fusionert hat.

• 03/11/2010 African Aura's Aktienkurs steigt nach ermutigendem Goldexplorationsergebnis
• 07/04/2010 African Aura: Eisenerz, Gold und Diamant Potenzial im Afrika.
• 04/12/2009 African Aura Mining - Evolution Securities bemerkte die Q3 Ergebnisse

• 25/10/2010 African Aura bekommt US$4,2m von Severstal für Putu Projekt "farm-out".
• 01/10/2010 African Aura Mining meldet mehr positive Bohrergebnisse vom New Liberty Goldprojekt.
• 15/09/2010 African Aura Mining - eine Mineralentwicklungsvereinbarung für das Putu Eisenerz Projekt.
• 28/07/2010 African Aura Mining - Definierungs-Bohrungen auf dem Nkout Eisenerz Projekt.
• 18/06/2010 African Aura Mining - Bohrergebnisse haben das Potenzial eines Tagebaus fuer New Liberty bestaetigt

Die Strategie der Firma ist ein "First Mover" zu sein, innerhalb der viel versprechenden geologischen Provinze in dem aufkommenden subsaharischen Afrika. Die Firma will die nächste Generation der Gold und Eisenerzminen ausnützen.
Das Unternehmen ist ein Pionier, weil es die erhebliche Erfahrung in der Arbeit in Afrika hat und die Fähigkeit der nicht-geologischen Risiken, die mit Investitionen in Schwellenländern verbunden ist, zu idenfizieren und bewerten. Die Firma verwendet Satellit Technologie um die hochsten Prioritätsgebiete zu untersuchen. Diese Strategie hilft uns die Ausstrich- Lagerstätten an der Oberflache zu entdecken. Historisch, sind diese Lagerstätten am schnellsten entdeckt, für die niedrigsten Kosten für Exploration und sind die ersten zu Minen geworden.
Zusätzlich zu unseren New Liberty Gold und Putu Eisenerz Projekten, hat African Aura ein bedeutendes Portfolio an Projekten in Liberia und Kamerun mit mehr als 20 Lagerstätten, die bisher entdeckt wurden.
Diese Entdeckungen schaffen eine Pipeline von Chancen für das Unternehmen, dass sich in unterschiedlichen Stadien der Exploration - von Aufklärungs-Probenahme bis hin zur Ressourcen-Definition Bohrungen.

 

Directors

David Netherway
Position: Chairman and director (Independent)

Mr. Netherway is a mining engineer with over 30 years of experience in the mining industry. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Shield Mining Limited (SHX-ASX), an Australian listed company exploring for gold and base metals in Mauritania. From April 2002 until the completion of its takeover by Eldorado Gold Corporation in 2005, Mr. Netherway served as the President and Chief Executive Officer of Afcan Mining Corporation, a company previously listed in Toronto and with a focus on China's gold mining. Mr. Netherway is a mine developer and operator who was involved in the construction and development of the Iduapriem, Siguiri, Kiniero and Samira Hill gold mines in West Africa and has mining experience which includes Australia, Canada, India, Nepal, Oman and Malaysia. Prior to joining Afcan, Mr. Netherway held senior management positions in a number of mining companies, including Golden Shamrock Mines, Ashanti Goldfields and Semafo Inc. Mr. Netherway has received a B.E. in Mining Engineering from the University of Melbourne in 1975 and a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants in the United Kingdom in 1985.

Mr. Netherway is a Non-Executive Director of GMA Resources plc (GMA-AIM)(from December 1, 2005), KazakhGold Group Limited (KZG-LSE)(from September 1, 2005) and Altus Resource Capital Ltd (ARCL-AIM)(from April 1, 2009).

Luis Guilherme Cabrita da Silva
Position: President & CEO

Luis took over the role of President & Chief Executive in October 2007 having joined Mano River in February of the same year as Chief Financial Officer. He gained his extensive international experience with the multinationals Lafarge S.A. and Blue Circle Industries Plc as well as Stevin Rock, formerly of the Dragomar Group. His career has taken him across the world in an operational, technical and corporate capacity. Most recently as a Director of Group Audit, Luis was heading Lafarge's Asia Pacific internal audit department based in Malaysia having previously been posted to Paris, France, with the same company. Luis is a graduate Mining Engineer from Camborne School of Mines and read for his MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Stellar Diamonds Ltd.

Guy Pas
Position: Independent Director

Guy Pas is a Geneva based financier who has been involved with numerous successful resource ventures, through his investment vehicles Eastbound Resources and AddVenture Capital Partners. Between 1973-1983 he was a Vice President of Chase Manhattan Bank in structured and commodity finance. In 1987 he co-founded The Addax & Oryx Group Ltd., an integrated African oil group. In 1989 he co-founded and was the chairman of Samax Resources Ltd, which was focused on gold in Tanzania and was acquired on the TSX by Anglogold Ashanti for $189m in 1998. In 1995 he founded Mano River Resources Inc a TSX-V and AIM listed gold, diamond and iron ore company in west Africa. In 2004 he co-founded GAIA Resources Fund Ltd, focused on early stage private and public resource companies as well as co-founding Afren plc, a West African oil & gas company listed on AIM. Guy has been involved in establishing a number of FSU focussed ventures, most recently Ovoca Gold Plc and Siberian Diamonds.

David B. Evans
Position: Independent Director

David Barry Evans joined the Company on 1st October 2007, as Executive Chairman. David brings with him over 30 years of experience across the natural resources sector, with particular expertise in the development of precious and base metal projects for both large mining houses and emerging producers. David is currently a Director for AIM-listed Tianshan Goldfields Ltd., and was previously a Director of Kroondal Platinum Ltd. and Aquarius Platinum Ltd., where he played an integral part in their growth, financing and successful development. David is also a Director of Orlando Investments Plc. Within the last five years, David has held directorships or partnerships at Exterra Consulting cc, Tarapaca Resources Ltd. (Bermuda).

Steven Poulton, BSc (Hons.) MSc MCSM
Position: Independent Director

Steven Poulton holds an honours degree in geology from Southampton University and a masters degree in mining geology from the Camborne School of Mines. He is the Chief Executive and co-founder of ALTUS Strategies Ltd. Steven previously worked for Mano River Resources between 1998 and 2005. In 2002 he co-founded AIM listed Ariana Resources [AIM:AAU] and was its Chief Executive between 2004 and 2007. In 2004 he was the founder of African Aura Resources which listed on the TSX-V and through its merger with Mano River created African Aura Mining. He is a director of the African AUra's subsidiary Stellar Diamonds Ltd. Steven has a track record in the exploration sector at identifying opportunities, negotiating agreements, raising venture finance and building talented management teams.

Boris Granovsky
Position: Independent Director

Nominated Representative of Severstal Resources (Head of Business Development for Severstal Resources) and former management consultant with KPMG & A.T. Kearnay

Management

Luis Guilherme Cabrita da Silva
Position: President & CEO
Luis, took over the role of President & Chief Executive in October 2007 having joined Mano River in February of the same year as Chief Financial Officer. He gained his extensive international experience with the multinationals Lafarge S.A. and Blue Circle Industries Plc as well as Stevin Rock, formerly of the Dragomar Group. His career has taken him across the world in an operational, technical and corporate capacity. Most recently as a Director of Group Audit, Luis was heading Lafarge's Asia Pacific internal audit department based in Malaysia having previously been posted to Paris, France, with the same company. Luis is a graduate Mining Engineer from Camborne School of Mines and read for his MBA at the Cranfield School of Management. He is currently a Non-Executive Director of Stellar Diamonds Ltd.

Karl Smithson
Position: CEO Stellar Diamonds Ltd.
Karl was appointed as Stellar's Chief Executive Officer with effect from 1 January 2007, having been Chief Operating Officer for diamonds for MRRI for three years. He is a geology graduate of Kingston University and in 2006 completed his MBA at the Graduate School of Business in Cape Town, South Africa and was awarded with the Old Mutual Gold Medal. Mr. Smithson has 19 years of diamond experience gained with a number of companies in senior management positions, including De Beers (10 years), SouthernEra Diamonds (2 years) and MRRI (3 years). Mr. Smithson also ran his own diamond exploration consultancy for three years. Mr. Smithson's working career has been focussed on diamond exploration in Africa and he has been responsible for a number of new diamond discoveries in Botswana, Zimbabwe, Sierra Leone and Liberia. The discovery in Botswana is due to enter commercial production in the near future as the Lerala Diamond Mine.

Nigel Kieser
Position: CEO Putu Iron Ore
Nigel, has been nominated by Severstal Resources, pursuant to the joint venture agreement, as Chief Executive Officer of Putu Iron Ore Mining Inc., the project entity. Mr Kieser graduated in Mining Geology from the Royal School of Mines where he was subsequently awarded his doctorate. After 5 years working as a metals and mining sector equity analyst for Banque Paribas and then JP Morgan Securities, Mr Kieser joined Rio Tinto where he held business development and exploration management roles for six years. For the preceding two years before this post, Mr Kieser was General Director, Russia for De Beers, based in Moscow. Mr Kieser will formally take up his position in the second quarter of this year.

Bevan John Metcalf
Position: Chief Financial Officer
Bevan, is a Chartered Accountant with 27 years global experience in the pharmaceutical and mining industries. He graduated with a Bachelor of Management Studies degree from Waikato University in New Zealand. Bevan began his career as a Management Accountant with ICI, where he spent two years before emigrating to the United Kingdom. Bevan joined Beecham Pharmaceuticals in the UK as a Regional Accountant, and remained with the company for 11 years, holding a number of senior finance positions. Following the Beecham Pharmaceuticals merger with SmithKline, he was transferred to Belgium where he successfully established the European Head Office. He remained with the merged company for 5 years, first as European Planning Manager and then as European Controller. Bevan returned to the UK in 1995 and was appointed Finance Director for Orion Pharmaceuticals, a mid-size European pharmaceutical company. Bevan then joined African Eagle Resources plc, a mineral exploration company focused on eastern and central Africa, listed on AIM and the Alternative Exchange of the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, where he currently holds the position of Finance Director and Company Secretary. Bevan was granted ACA membership of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of New Zealand in 1986. He is also a director of BM Financial Solutions Ltd and The FD Group Ltd.

Ronnie Addy
Position: Resident Manager
Julius Ronnie Addy joined Mano in May 2000. He obtained a Bachelors degree in Business Administration from the University of Liberia, majoring in Accounting and mentoring in Management. In 2006 he enrolled in graduate school at The Louis Arthur Grimes School of Law, University of Liberia, where he earned an L.L.B. Degree. A professional Accountant of several years, and an Associate Member of The Liberian Institute of Certified Public Accountants, he worked for the Liberia Electricity Corporation for nine year as Internal Auditor. He also served the Red Cross for eight years as Finance Officer. He is an Attorney at-Law and a member of the Montserrado Bar Association.

Dr Richard Latiff
Position: Chief Geologist, Liberia, Sierra Leone and Guinea

Richard graduated with B.SC from Freetown in 1981 and obtained his PhD. from the University of Southampton in 1993. Following a number of years with the Sierra Leone Geological Survey, he was appointed a lecturer in structural geology at Fourah Bay College, University of Sierra Leone.

Richard was principal field investigator in kimberlite indicator mineral sampling programmes in the Central African Republic and Kono which lead to the discovery of several dykes now owned by Stellar diamonds, a subsidiary of Mano River Resources (now African Aura Mining Inc.) in Sierra Leone. He was in the target selection group that found Weaju, Gondoja and New Liberty, African-Aura's premier gold target and, has been involved in the discovery of the Silver Hills prospect and, more recently, the Ndablama find in the Bea MDA, Western Liberia.

2008 has seen Richard involved in planning the drilling, interpretation and classification of the rocks and ore types in the Severstal /African Aura JV Putu iron prospect in south-eastern Liberia.

Mark Biddulph, BSc.Hons, GDE, Pr.Sci.Nat
Position: Chief Geologist, Cameroon

Mark brings many years of operating experience to the company including over 11 years with Anglogold Ashanti where most recently he was the General Manager in Mineral Resources at the Obuasi mine in Ghana. His experience includes many areas of senior level management and brownfields exploration at Obuasi as well as other operations in South Africa.

He holds a BSc Hons in Geology and GIS from Rhodes University and a GDE in Mining Engineering (Mineral Economics) from the University of Witwatersrand in South Africa. Mark is a Professional Natural Scientist under the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP).

Alexander Fairbairn, MGEOL
Position: Senior Geologist
Alex graduated from the University of Leicester with a Masters degree in Geology in 2005. Before University, he spent two and a half years in the Territorial Army Royal Signals after completing an officer training course at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. Prior to joining African Aura Alex worked as an exploration geologist in Sierra Leone with Axmin Inc. He has broad experience in running field exploration programmes and GIS.

Primus Asua
Position: Accountant, Cameroon
Primus is a graduate of the University of Buea in Cameroon where he obtained a Bachelors degree in Accountancy.

Primus previously worked for the British Council in Cameroon where he served as a Finance Officer for seven years in charge of numerous accounting functions including producing financial and management accounts and conducting regular internal audits and reporting to the UK

Raphaël Bienvenu Namem, BSc. (Hons)
Position: Project Geologist, Cameroon
Raphaël graduated from the University of Yaoundé I in 2003. Before joining the company in April 2007, he worked as Surveyor for Community development NGOs and as Student Geologist for Cameroon Mining Company (Caminco), a Gold exploration Company established in Eastern Cameroon. Raphaël's geology experience includes mapping, planning and running stream sediment and soil sampling programs; pits, trenches & diamond core logging as well as project management in Gold, Iron and Uranium exploration. He is currently following a Master's degree in Structural geology at the University of Yaoundé I

Abu Bakarr Bangura, BSc. (Hons)
Position: Project Geologist, Liberia
Graduate of Fourah Bay College in Sierra Leone. Final year thesis on gold exploration; work as a field geologist including supervision of stream sediment sampling aeromagnetic targets, drilling, logging and bulk sampling

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